Thursday, September 1, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, December 9, 1825
    Extract of a letter published in the Philadelphia Gazette, dated 25th July.     I write you from the City of Kings and the Garden of Eternal Summer; where rain is unknown; but vegetation enjoys uninterrupted health, cherished by nightly dews.     Lima is proverbially called, the Heaven of ladies-the purgatory of men-and the Hell […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 8, 1918
Terrible Tragedy Ten Miles From Antioch When Wm. Hennie is Victim of a Hog. Animal is Finally Shot. Hired Man Unable to Save Employer, Finally Sends Bullet into Its Heart. Â Â Â Â Can you imagine a 32-year-old man being killed, being chewed to death by a hog, within 30 miles of Waukegan? Here’s a story which […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 28, 1901
    Findlay, O., Dec. 28.-Thirteen thousand sparrows, weighing nearly two tons, were killed during the six weeks contest which ended yesterday. The winning side, twenty-five men in number, captained by Lew Brickman killed nearly two-thirds of the birds and was given a banquet last night at McComb by the losing side, captained by Isaac Culp.
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, August 1, 1902
    On Hunerer’s creek, Grant County, Oregon, 280 sheep belonging to J. C. Moor of Mount Vernon were slaughtered, presumably by settlers and cattlemen. Armed men came upon the band at night and fired buckshot into them.
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, July 12, 1923
By International News Service. Â Â Â Â Cleveland, O., Dec. 19.-Loss estimated at $150,000 was caused by fire which destroyed a building occupied by five commission houses. Thirty-six hundred fowls were burned.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 6, 1886
    A letter from D. N. Whipple, Gettysburg, Kan., states that the recent storms in the western part of Kansas have been very severe on the cattle and sheep in the ranges, and the losses have run from 10 to 125 head on small herds of cattle, and as high as 1000 out of 1500 […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 12, 1873
    A train loaded with stock reached Pittsburg the other day when it was discovered that nearly the entire cargo were smothered. 1,200 hogs and 200 cattle were lost.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 16, 1877
    An extraordinary trial is about to take place before a Parisian tribunal. A jealous husband in the village of Carrieres fell upon a novel mode of punishing his wife for her flirtations by compelling her to swallow a live spider every Monday morning. After submitting for a time, she informed the police, and the […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 17, 1873
    An extraordinary case of cruelty to a horse was tried recently in an English Court. A Mr. Tomlinson, a plumber and glazier of York, hired a horse from Mr. Wilson for the purpose of taking his sweetheart an airing. The horse was not in good condition to make a long journey, and when jaded, […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 2, 1904
    Horsemen Keep Up Fusillade for Two Hours, Destroying All Animals.     More than 1,000 thoroughbred sheep belonging to Morrow & Keenan of Willow Creek, were killed at Little Summit Prairie, forty miles east of Princeville, Oregon. While the herder was alone about twenty horsemen, with faces blackened, emerged from the timber and commanded him […]
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